International Woodworkers Of America, Afl-Cio, Clc v. Chesapeake Bay Plywood Corporation

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• stating that class certification questions should “seldom” be resolved on the pleadings
• “It is seldom, if ever, possible to resolve class representation questions from the pleadings…”
• “[T]he status of an organization to proceed as a class representative should not be defeated solely because the organization is not itself, technically, an individual member of a class.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• failure to produce evidence countering employer's articulated legitimate reason for disparate treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).